DIFFUSION MODEL OF WEATHERING RIND DEVELOPMENT
7.9. QUANTIFYING THE DURATION OF WEATHERING
7.10. WEATHERING ADVANCE RATES ACROSS PRECIPITATION GRADIENTS
7.11. SUMMARY POINTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
8 Unraveling Loess Records of Climate Change from the Chinese Loess Plateau Using Process‐Based Models
8.1. INTRODUCTION
8.2. GLOBAL‐CHANGE RESPONSIVE MODELS OF SOIL FORMATION
8.3. SOILGEN‐LOVECLIM: A SUITABLE COMBINATION FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES IN LOESS SOILS
8.4. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
REFERENCES
9 Relations Between Soil Development and Landslides
9.1. INTRODUCTION
9.2. HOW SOILS INCREASE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LANDSLIDES
9.3. SOIL DEVELOPMENT
9.4. HOW LANDSLIDES AFFECT SOIL DEVELOPMENT
9.5. SOIL‐LANDSLIDE FEEDBACKS AND LANDSLIDE PATH‐DEPENDENCE
9.6. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
10A Soils in Agricultural Engineering: Effect of Land‐Use Management Systems on Mechanical Soil Processes
10A.1. INTRODUCTION
10A.2. MECHANICAL PROCESSES IN SOILS
10A.3. EFFECT OF STRESS APPLICATION ON CHANGES IN ECOLOGICAL SOIL FUNCTIONS
10A.4. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
10B Soil Strength and Carbon Sequestration
10B.1. INTRODUCTION
10B.2. PROCESSES OF SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION
10B.3. SEQUESTRATION OF SOIL INORGANIC CARBON
10B.4. RESTORING SOIL PROPERTIES THROUGH ECO‐EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT
10B.5. TECHNICAL AND ACTUAL RATE OF SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION
10B.6. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS OF THE UNITED NATIONS
10B.7. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
11 Part V: Integrated Studies of Soils 11 Chemical Weathering in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica 11.1. INTRODUCTION 11.2. STUDY AREA 11.3. FLUVIAL EROSION/DENUDATION 11.4. SOILS 11.5. SHALLOW GROUNDWATER SEEPS AND WATER TRACKS 11.6. STREAMS 11.7. WEATHERING PROCESSES 11.8. IMPLICATIONS OF MELTING BURIED ICE 11.9. CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 12 Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes Within Southeastern Piedmont Critical Zones 12.1. INTRODUCTION 12.2. METHODS 12.3. RESULTS 12.4. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES 13 Is This Steady State? Weathering and Critical Zone Architecture in Gordon Gulch, Colorado Front Range 13.1. INTRODUCTION 13.2. STUDY LOCATION 13.3. CRITICAL ZONE ARCHITECTURE 13.4. DISCUSSION 13.5. SUMMARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 14 Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Pedogenesis Through Chemical Weathering, Hydrologic Fluxes, and Bioturbation 14.1. WHAT AND WHERE IS SOIL PHYSICALLY, HYDROLOGICALLY, CHEMICALLY, BIOLOGICALLY, CONCEPTUALLY, AND SCIENTIFICALLY? 14.2. SOIL‐FORMING FACTORS AND SOIL PRODUCTION; CONNECTIONS WITH GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY 14.3. HUMAN IMPACTS AND RELEVANCE TO HUMAN SOCIETY 14.4. WHERE IS SOIL AS A DISCIPLINE? 14.5. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS, NETWORKS, AND FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT: CURRENT AND FUTURE 14.6. WAYS FORWARD REFERENCES
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